Diana Bagnoli

PHOTOGRAPHY

WOMEN IN WAR, UKRAINE

The 21 st of February 2015 is the anniversary of the massacre of Piazza Maidan who started the conquering of Ukraine by Russia. Every body in Kiev is working hard to defend their country. Young bo...

The 21st of February 2015 is the anniversary of the massacre of Piazza Maidan who started the conquering of Ukraine by Russia.

Every body in Kiev is working hard to defend their country. Young boys leaving to the front-line as civilian volunteer, grannies and mum who send food or woollen socks and hats, taking care of refugees or sewing mimetic nets.

The battalion of Marussia, named by the woman who found it, is a paramilitary camp of extreme right (Pravi Sektor) where men and women train very hard and learn how to use weapon and basic military skills in order to defend them self or to leave to fight. Any kind of people as housewives, professionals, students, etc. meet there every Saturday scared by the Russian advance.

The common effort is huge and it seems like a civilian volunteer war. Ukraine has a poor and restricted army, as people said, and after the sudden occupation of Crimea they realized that they had to move by themselves. So different volunteer group rose up and it seems that everybody is doing something according

to their physical and economic resources or attitudes.

The war in the back-line is made by the civilian people at home,where people support it silently, take care of each other and bury their dead.

out of Kiev, landscape

Marussia is the leader in commander of the civic battalion in Kievska Oblast. She worked in advertising before Maidan battle and she definitely hadn't a proper preparation in the military service. Now she organizes the camp close to Kiev in order to teach people how to use a Kalashnikov, to assemble and disassemble guns, fight with a knife and those kind of basic military activities. A lot of women join the camp, from 18 up to more than 50 years old.

Commemoration for Bandera in Maidan square, 1 of January 2015

Painted nails with the Pravi Sektor flag colours

Volonteer training at the Marussia Batalion (right sector) in Kievska Oblast, close to Kiev.

A girl exhausted after the training

Ana 21 years old, is a volonteer training at the Marussia Batalion (right sector) in Kievska Oblast, close to Kiev. She is a sewer in an atelier in Kiev. She try to come here as much as possible “because it’s important to be prepared for anything could happen. But is very hard".

The woman in charge of the food at the military camp

Lunch at the military tend

Soldier funeral out of Kiev, he was 23 years old, he died in a battle in the Est

Soldier funeral

The net battalion. A volunteer woman sewing a mimetic net in a basement of an abandoned mall.

Daria and her husband, they are both lawyer in Kiev, they're very scared and prepared about the Rusian invasio.

Volunteer nurse is taking care of a wounded soldier in the military hospital in Kiev

Refugee centre, Kiev

A refugee child jumping in the Sviatoshin Village, suburbs of Kiev. This was an health care centre, but since the conflict with Rusia began it's hosting 110 internal displaced people from Donbas and Crimea.

Xenia, leader in charge of the Main volunteer center for helping refugees in Kiev.

Kolyadki singers come to sing at the military camp to wish good luck to guys who’re living there and that will leave soon to fight in the East.

The 21st of February 2015 is the anniversary of the massacre of Piazza Maidan who started the conquering of Ukraine by Russia.

Every body in Kiev is working hard to defend their country. Young boys leaving to the front-line as civilian volunteer, grannies and mum who send food or woollen socks and hats, taking care of refugees or sewing mimetic nets.

The battalion of Marussia, named by the woman who found it, is a paramilitary camp of extreme right (Pravi Sektor) where men and women train very hard and learn how to use weapon and basic military skills in order to defend them self or to leave to fight. Any kind of people as housewives, professionals, students, etc. meet there every Saturday scared by the Russian advance.

The common effort is huge and it seems like a civilian volunteer war. Ukraine has a poor and restricted army, as people said, and after the sudden occupation of Crimea they realized that they had to move by themselves. So different volunteer group rose up and it seems that everybody is doing something according

to their physical and economic resources or attitudes.

The war in the back-line is made by the civilian people at home,where people support it silently, take care of each other and bury their dead.